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He who confers a benefit on any one loves him better than he is beloved.—ARISTOTLE, Nicomachean Ethics
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If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, never forget it.—CHILON, Septem Sapientum Sententiae
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There is a hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.—JOHN DONNE, Sermons
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He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.—FRANKLIN, Autobiography
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A God-send, as our familiarly pious ancestors termed a benefit received where the benefactor was unknown.—CHARLES LAMB, Valentine's Day
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The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture.—CHARLES LAMB, That You Must Love Me and Love My Dog
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Benefits, like flowers, please most when they are fresh.—Proverb
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He that requites a benefit pays a great deal.—Proverb
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To accept a benefit is to sell one's freedom.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
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A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury.—RACINE, Iphigenie
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.—SENECA, De Beneficiis
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that hath received it disclose it.—SENECA, De Beneficiis
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I benefit myself in aiding him.—SOPHOCLES, Oedipus Tyrannus
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In refusing benefits caution must be used lest we seem to despise or to refuse them for fear of having to repay them in kind.—SPINOZA, Ethics
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Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.—TACITUS, History
